a waste of time
11th July 2016 | for Creatives | structured writing & plotting/outlining, intuitive writing & pantsing, pantsing vs. plotting, writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg, creative freedom, Jack Hamann |
"Most writers will create an outline and start pounding out a draft. But Klinkenborg does neither. Outlines, he says, are not only a waste of time, but they also harm our writing. How, he wonders, can we presume to know what we're going to write before we write it?"
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